1967 elections in India
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This article is part of a series on the politics and government of India |
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The elections in India in 1967 included the 1967 Indian general election and nine state legislative assembly elections.
General election[edit]
Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Indian National Congress | 59,490,701 | 40.78 | 283 | –78 | |
Bharatiya Jana Sangh | 13,580,935 | 9.31 | 35 | +21 | |
Swatantra Party | 12,646,847 | 8.67 | 44 | +26 | |
Communist Party of India | 7,458,396 | 5.11 | 23 | –6 | |
Samyukta Socialist Party | 7,171,627 | 4.92 | 23 | New | |
Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 6,246,522 | 4.28 | 19 | New | |
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | 5,529,405 | 3.79 | 25 | +18 | |
Praja Socialist Party | 4,456,487 | 3.06 | 13 | +1 | |
Republican Party of India | 3,607,711 | 2.47 | 1 | –2 | |
Bangla Congress | 1,204,356 | 0.83 | 5 | New | |
Peasants and Workers Party of India | 1,028,755 | 0.71 | 2 | +2 | |
Akali Dal – Sant Fateh Singh | 968,712 | 0.66 | 3 | New | |
All India Forward Bloc | 627,910 | 0.43 | 2 | 0 | |
Indian Union Muslim League | 413,868 | 0.28 | 2 | 0 | |
Kerala Congress | 321,219 | 0.22 | 0 | New | |
Jammu & Kashmir National Conference | 210,020 | 0.14 | 1 | New | |
Akali Dal – Master Tara Singh | 189,290 | 0.13 | 0 | New | |
Jana Kranti Dal | 183,211 | 0.13 | 1 | New | |
Jana Congress | 136,631 | 0.09 | 0 | New | |
All Party Hill Leaders Conference | 112,492 | 0.08 | 1 | 0 | |
United Goans – Seqveria Group | 100,137 | 0.07 | 1 | New | |
Peoples Front | 42,725 | 0.03 | 0 | New | |
Democratic National Conference | 30,788 | 0.02 | 0 | New | |
United Goans – Furtadd Group | 1,714 | 0.00 | 0 | New | |
Nagaland Nationalist Organisation | 0 | 0.00 | 1 | New | |
Independents | 20,106,051 | 13.78 | 35 | +15 | |
Appointed members[lower-alpha 1] | 3 | –11 | |||
Total | 145,866,510 | 100.00 | 523 | +15 | |
Valid votes | 145,866,510 | 95.51 | |||
Invalid/blank votes | 6,858,101 | 4.49 | |||
Total votes | 152,724,611 | 100.00 | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 250,207,401 | 61.04 | |||
Source: ECI |
- ↑ Two representing Anglo-Indians and one representing the North-East Frontier Agency.
Legislative Assembly elections[edit]
Andhra Pradesh[edit]
Party | Votes | % | Seats | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Bharatiya Jana Sangh | 291,783 | 2.11 | 3 | |
Communist Party of India | 1,077,499 | 7.78 | 11 | |
Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 1,053,855 | 7.61 | 9 | |
Indian National Congress | 6,292,649 | 45.42 | 165 | |
Praja Socialist Party | 28,564 | 0.21 | 0 | |
Republican Party of India | 36,757 | 0.27 | 1 | |
Sanghata Socialist Party | 49,669 | 0.36 | 1 | |
Swatantra Party | 1,363,382 | 9.84 | 29 | |
Independents | 3,658,928 | 26.41 | 68 | |
Total | 13,853,086 | 100.00 | 287 | |
Valid votes | 13,853,086 | 85.59 | ||
Invalid/blank votes | 2,333,093 | 14.41 | ||
Total votes | 16,186,179 | 100.00 | ||
Registered voters/turnout | 20,934,068 | 77.32 | ||
Source: ECI[1] |
Assam[edit]
Bihar[edit]
Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Indian National Congress | 4,479,460 | 33.09 | 128 | –57 | |
Sanghata Socialist Party | 2,385,961 | 17.62 | 68 | New | |
Bharatiya Jana Sangh | 1,410,722 | 10.42 | 26 | +23 | |
Praja Socialist Party | 942,889 | 6.96 | 18 | –11 | |
Communist Party of India | 935,977 | 6.91 | 24 | +12 | |
Jan Kranti Dal | 451,412 | 3.33 | 13 | New | |
Swatantra Party | 315,184 | 2.33 | 3 | –47 | |
Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 173,656 | 1.28 | 4 | New | |
Republican Party of India | 23,893 | 0.18 | 1 | New | |
Independents | 2,419,469 | 17.87 | 33 | –21 | |
Total | 13,538,623 | 100.00 | 318 | 0 | |
Valid votes | 13,538,623 | 73.37 | |||
Invalid/blank votes | 4,914,436 | 26.63 | |||
Total votes | 18,453,059 | 100.00 | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 27,743,190 | 66.51 | |||
Source: ECI[2] |
Delhi[edit]
Party | Seats | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Elected | Nominated | Total | ||||
Bharatiya Jana Sangh | 33 | 2 | 35 | |||
Indian National Congress | 19 | 2 | 21 | |||
Republican Party of India | 2 | 0 | 2 | |||
Independents | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
Total | 56 | 5 | 61 | |||
Source: Parveen,[3] Delhi Gazetteer[4] |
Goa, Daman and Diu[edit]
Political Party |
Seats contested |
Seats won |
Number of Votes |
% of Votes | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party | 26 | 16 | 111,110 | 40.42% | |
United Goans Party (Sequeira Group) | 30 | 12 | 104,426 | 37.98% | |
Independents | 156 | 2 | 48,471 | 17.63% | |
Total[5] | 226 | 30 | 264.007 | 100% |
Gujarat[edit]
Haryana[edit]
Party | Votes | % | Seats | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Indian National Congress | 1,252,290 | 41.33 | 48 | |
Bharatiya Jana Sangh | 436,145 | 14.39 | 12 | |
Sanghata Socialist Party | 108,172 | 3.57 | 0 | |
Swatantra Party | 96,410 | 3.18 | 3 | |
Republican Party of India | 87,861 | 2.90 | 2 | |
Communist Party of India | 27,238 | 0.90 | 0 | |
Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 16,379 | 0.54 | 0 | |
Praja Socialist Party | 6,477 | 0.21 | 0 | |
Independents | 998,969 | 32.97 | 16 | |
Total | 3,029,941 | 100.00 | 81 | |
Valid votes | 3,029,941 | 76.48 | ||
Invalid/blank votes | 931,825 | 23.52 | ||
Total votes | 3,187,946 | – | ||
Registered voters/turnout | 4,387,980 | 90.29 | ||
Source: ECI[6] |
Himachal Pradesh[edit]
Party | Votes | % | Seats | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Indian National Congress | 323,247 | 42.19 | 34 | |
Bharatiya Jana Sangh | 106,261 | 13.87 | 7 | |
Communist Party of India | 22,173 | 2.89 | 2 | |
Swatantra Party | 14,767 | 1.93 | 1 | |
Others | 7,787 | 1.02 | 0 | |
Independents | 291,884 | 38.10 | 16 | |
Total | 766,119 | 100.00 | 60 | |
Valid votes | 766,119 | 94.54 | ||
Invalid/blank votes | 44,234 | 5.46 | ||
Total votes | 810,353 | 100.00 | ||
Registered voters/turnout | 1,582,103 | 51.22 | ||
Source: ECI[7] |
Jammu and Kashmir[edit]
Kerala[edit]
Political Party | Flag | Seats Contested |
Won | Net Change in seats |
% of Seats |
Votes | Vote % | Change in vote % | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bharatiya Jana Sangh | 22 | 0 | NA | 0 | 55,584 | 0.88 | NA | ||
Communist Party of India | 22 | 19 | 16 | 14.29 | 538,004 | 8.57 | 0.27 | ||
Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 59 | 52 | 12 | 39.10 | 1,476,456 | 23.51 | 3.64 | ||
Indian National Congress | 133 | 9 | 27 | 6.77 | 2,789,556 | 35.43 | 1.88 | ||
Praja Socialist Party | 7 | 0 | NA | 0 | 13,991 | 0.22 | NA | ||
Samyukta Socialist Party | 21 | 19 | 6 | 14.29 | 527,662 | 8.4 | 0.27 | ||
Swatantra Party | 6 | 0 | NA | 14.29 | 13,105 | 0.21 | NA | ||
Kerala Congress | 61 | 5 | 1 | 3.76 | 475,172 | 7.57 | 5.01 | ||
Template:Party name with colour | 15 | 14 | 8 | 10.53 | 424,159 | 6.75 | 2.92 | ||
Template:Party name with colour | 75 | 15 | 3 | 11.28 | 531,783 | 8.47 | 5.27 | ||
Total Seats | 133 ( 0) | Voters | 8,613,658 | Turnout | 6,518,272 (75.67%) |
Madras[edit]
Alliances | Party | Popular Vote | Vote % | Seats contested | Seats won | Change |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
United Front[10]
|
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | 6,230,552 | 40.69% | 174 | 137 | 87 |
Swatantra Party | 811,232 | 5.30% | 27 | 20 | 12 | |
Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 623,114 | 4.07% | 22 | 11 | 11 | |
Praja Socialist Party | 136,188 | 0.89% | 4 | 4 | 4 | |
Indian Union Muslim League | 95,494 | 0.62% | 3 | 3 | 3 | |
Sanghata Socialist Party | 84,188 | 0.55% | 3 | 2 | 2 | |
DMK Backed Independents | 70,665 | 0.46% | 2 | 2 | 2 | |
Indian National Congress Seats: 51 Seat Change: 84 Popular Vote: 6,293,378 Popular Vote %: 41.10% |
Indian National Congress | 6,293,378 | 41.10% | 232 | 51 | 84 |
Others Seats: 4 Seat Change: 4 |
Independents | 591,214 | 3.86% | 246 | 1 | 4 |
Communist Party of India | 275,932 | 1.80% | 32 | 2 | ||
Forward Bloc | 44,714 | 0.29% | 1 | 1 | ||
Republican Party of India | 31,286 | 0.20% | 13 | 0 | ||
Bharatiya Jana Sangh | 22,745 | 0.15% | 24 | 0 | ||
Total | 11 Political Parties | 15,310,702 | 100% | — | 234 | 28 |
Maharashtra[edit]
Political Party |
No. of candidates |
No. of elected |
Number of Votes |
% of Votes |
Seat change | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Indian National Congress | 270 | 203 | 6,288,564 | 47.03% | 12 | |
Peasants and Workers Party of India | 58 | 19 | 1,043,239 | 7.80% | 4 | |
Communist Party of India | 41 | 10 | 651,077 | 4.87% | 4 | |
Praja Socialist Party | 66 | 8 | 545,935 | 4.08% | 1 | |
Republican Party of India | 79 | 5 | 890,377 | 6.66% | 5 | |
Bharatiya Jana Sangh | 166 | 4 | 1,092,670 | 8.17% | 4 | |
Samyukta Socialist Party | 48 | 4 | 616,466 | 4.61% | 4 | |
Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 11 | 1 | 145,083 | 1.08% | 1 | |
Independents | 463 | 16 | 1,948,223 | 14.57% | 1 | |
Total | 1242 | 270 | 13,371,735 |
Manipur[edit]
Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Indian National Congress | 101,504 | 32.53 | 16 | New | |
Sanghata Socialist Party | 36,520 | 11.70 | 4 | New | |
Communist Party of India | 17,062 | 5.47 | 1 | New | |
Praja Socialist Party | 2,417 | 0.77 | 0 | New | |
Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 2,093 | 0.67 | 0 | New | |
Independents | 152,419 | 48.85 | 9 | New | |
Total | 312,015 | 100.00 | 30 | 0 | |
Valid votes | 312,015 | 82.00 | |||
Invalid/blank votes | 68,505 | 18.00 | |||
Total votes | 380,520 | 100.00 | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 468,707 | 81.19 | |||
Source: ECI[11] |
Mysore[edit]
Political Party |
Contestants |
Seats won |
Seat change |
Number of votes |
Vote share |
Net change | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Indian National Congress | 216 | 126 | 12 | 3,636,374 | 48.43% | 1.79 | |
Praja Socialist Party | 52 | 20 | 0 | 666,662 | 8.88% | 5.20 | |
Swatantra Party | 45 | 16 | 7 | 497,055 | 6.62% | 0.53 | |
Samyukta Socialist Party | 17 | 6 | 185,222 | 2.47% | |||
Bharatiya Jana Sangh | 37 | 4 | 211,966 | 2.82% | |||
Independents | 41 | 14 | 2,129,786 | 28.36% | N/A | ||
Total | 216 | ' |
Odisha[edit]
Political Party | Flag | Seats Contested |
Won | Net Change in seats |
% of Seats |
Votes | Vote % | Change in vote % | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Indian National Congress | 140 | 31 | 51 | 22.14 | 12,35,149 | 30.66 | 12.62 | ||
Bharatiya Jana Sangh | 19 | 0 | "New" | 0 | 21,788 | 4.07 | "New" | ||
Praja Socialist Party | 33 | 21 | 11 | 7.85 | 4,93,750 | 41.16 | 10.73 | ||
Communist Party of India | 31 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 2,11,999 | 20.71 | 6.61 | ||
Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 10 | 1 | "New" | 0.71 | 46,597 | 18.16 | "New" | ||
Swatantra Party | 101 | 49 | "New" | 35 | 9,09,421 | 34.78 | "New" | ||
JAC | 47 | 26 | "New" | 18.57 | 5,42,734 | 37.17 | "New" | ||
Template:Party name with colour | 21 | 2 | N/A | 1.42 | 5,05,394 | 17.72 | N/A | ||
Total Seats | 140 ( 0) | Voters | 98,73,057 | Turnout | 43,48,838 (44.05%) |
Punjab[edit]
Result of Punjab Legislative Assembly election 1967[12] | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Part | contested | Seats won | change in seats | popular vote | % | |
Akali Dal - Sant Fateh Singh | 59 | 24 | 24 | 8,71,742 | 20.48 | |
Bharatiya Jana Sangh | 49 | 9 | 1 | 4,18,921 | 9.84% | |
Communist Party of India | 19 | 5 | 4 | 2,21,494 | 5.20% | |
Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 13 | 3 | 3 | 1,38,857 | 3.26% | |
Republican Party of India | 17 | 3 | 3 | 76,089 | 1.79% | |
Akali Dal Master Tara Singh Group | 61 | 2 | 2 | 1,78,746 | 4.20% | |
Socialist Party | 8 | 1 | 3 | 30,591 | 0.72% | |
Independents | 235 | 9 | 9 | 6,83,369 | 16.05% | |
Indian National Congress | 102 | 48 | 42 | 15,94,160 | 37.45% | |
Others | 19 | 0 | 43,144 | 1.02% | ||
Total[13] | 602 | 104 | 42,57,113 |
Parties in green box formed coalition government
Rajasthan[edit]
Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Indian National Congress | 2,798,411 | 41.42 | 89 | +1 | |
Swatantra Party | 1,493,018 | 22.10 | 48 | +12 | |
Bharatiya Jana Sangh | 789,609 | 11.69 | 22 | +7 | |
Sanghata Socialist Party | 321,574 | 4.76 | 8 | New | |
Communist Party of India | 79,826 | 1.18 | 0 | 0 | |
Communist Party of India | 65,531 | 0.97 | 1 | –4 | |
Praja Socialist Party | 54,618 | 0.81 | 0 | –2 | |
Jai Telangana Party | 45,576 | 0.67 | 0 | New | |
Republican Party of India | 8,932 | 0.13 | 0 | New | |
Independents | 1,099,169 | 16.27 | 16 | –6 | |
Total | 6,756,264 | 100.00 | 184 | +8 | |
Valid votes | 6,756,264 | 79.34 | |||
Invalid/blank votes | 1,759,342 | 20.66 | |||
Total votes | 8,515,606 | 100.00 | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 10,002,447 | 85.14 | |||
Source: ECI[14] |
Tripura[edit]
Party | Seats Contested | Seats Won | No. of Votes | % of Votes | 1963 Seats |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bharatiya Jana Sangh | 5 | 0 | 1,506 | 0.35% | No data available |
Communist Party of India | 7 | 1 | 34,562 | 7.97% | No data available |
Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 16 | 2 | 93,739 | 21.61% | No data available |
Indian National Congress | 30 | 27 | 251,345 | 57.95% | No data available |
Sanghata Socialist Party | 1 | 0 | 83 | 0.02% | No data available |
Independents | 28 | 0 | 52,457 | 12.10% | No data available |
Total | 87 | 30 | 433,692 |
Uttar Pradesh[edit]
Party Name | Seats |
---|---|
Indian National Congress (INC) | 199 |
Bharatiya Jan Sangh (BJS) | 98 |
Samyukta Socialist Party (SSP) | 44 |
Communist Party of India (CPI) | 13 |
Swatantra Party (SWA) | 12 |
Praja Socialist Party (PSP) | 11 |
Republican Party of India (RPI) | 10 |
Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) | 1 |
Independent | 37 |
Total | 425 |
West Bengal[edit]
Political Party |
No. of candidates |
No. of elected |
Number of Votes |
% of Votes |
Seat change | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Indian National Congress | 280 | 127 | 5,207,930 | 41.13% | 30 | |
Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 135 | 43 | 2,293,026 | 18.11% | 43 | |
Bangla Congress | 80 | 34 | 1,286,028 | 10.16% | 34 | |
Communist Party of India | 62 | 16 | 827,196 | 6.53% | 34 | |
All India Forward Bloc | 42 | 13 | 561,148 | 4.43% | ||
Samyukta Socialist Party | 26 | 7 | 269,234 | 2.13% | 7 | |
Praja Socialist Party | 26 | 7 | 238,694 | 1.88% | 2 | |
Revolutionary Socialist Party | 16 | 6 | 238,694 | 2.14% | 2 | |
Socialist Unity Centre of India | 8 | 4 | 238,694 | 0.72% | 1 | |
Marxist Forward Bloc | 58 | 1 | 167,934 | 1.33% | 1 | |
Revolutionary Communist Party of India | 58 | 1 | 167,934 | 1.33% | 8 | |
Bharatiya Jana Sangh | 58 | 1 | 167,934 | 1.33% | 1 | |
Swatantra Party | 21 | 1 | 102,576 | 0.81% | 1 | |
Independents | 327 | 31 | 1,708,011 | 13.49% | 20 | |
Total | 1058 | 280 | 12,663,030 |
References[edit]
- ↑ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1967 to the Legislative Assembly of Andhra Pradesh". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
- ↑ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1967 to the Legislative Assembly of Bihar". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
- ↑ Nazima Parveen (2021). Contested Homelands: Politics of Space and Identity. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9789389000917.
BJS won thirty-three of fifty-six seats of the Delhi Metropolitan Council election in 1967..
- ↑ Radha Raman, ed. (1 April 1976). Delhi Gazetteer - 1976. Delhi. p. 974.
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- ↑ "Haryana 1967". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
- ↑ "Himachal Pradesh General Legislative Election 1967". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
- ↑ http://www.assembly.tn.gov.in/archive/3rd_1962/Review%203_62-67.pdf Template:Bare URL PDF
- ↑ "Tamil Nadu 1967".
- ↑ Siddhartan, N. S. (17 June 1967). "Voting Pattern in the Fourth General Election. I: D M K Success in Madras". Economic and Political Weekly. 2 (24): 1083–88. JSTOR 4358065.
- ↑ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1967 to the Legislative Assembly of Manipur". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
- ↑ "List of Polling Booth For Punjab Lok Sabha Elections 1967". www.elections.in.
- ↑ "Statistical Report on General Election Punjab 1967". Election Commission of India.
- ↑ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1967 to the Legislative Assembly of Rajasthan". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
- ↑ "1967 Tripura Election result".